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Outstanding Odes

During my second week working virtually with Dubois students, we learned about odes. An ode is a poem that gives praise and celebrates a person, place, or object. Together we read Marcus Jackson’s poem […]

Dear Basketball

During my first week of my virtual residency with Dubois students, we explored epistolary poetry. Epistolary poems are poems that can be written as letters, notes, or diary entries. We discussed the different ways […]

More Alike Than We Are Different: Poems from Shaoxing, China

Back in March, after the first two days of this semester, I had been reacquainted with all of my students during our discussions about winter holiday/Spring Festival. I learned that across the waters, customs, […]

Extra! Extra!

For regular readers of the Hands on Stanzas blogs, you may have figured out that the poems published are those written and completed during each session, which are usually confined to one class period! […]

Entering a New Voice!

In 7th workshop, explored persona poetry! The students wrote poems from the perspective or in the voice of an object, place, character, or person!  *  *  * Ms. Dydo 8th Grade  *  *  * […]

Dubois gets a taste of sampling!

In 6th workshop, by built our poetic device detector muscles by listening to the famous “I Have a Dream” speech by Dr Martin Luther King Jr! We then talked about, sampling,noticing and and picking […]

Positive Poetry at DuBois!

By exploring the way Nomi Shihab Nye uses imagery, descriptive language, metaphors, and similes in her poem Kindness, in our 4th workshop, the students thought about positive traits that they look for in friends, […]

Lists For Our Families

The 3rd workshop we explored our connections to family, our life timelines, and how they’ve made us who we are!  *  *  * Ms. Dydo 8th Grade  *  *  * The Day Tamia R. […]

DuBois uses poetry to honor and celebrate those lost!

In our 5th workshop we used poetry as a means to honor and celebrate those we’ve lost by having the students write poems in the form of letters and odes to those they miss. […]

DuBois has the Creative License!

At DuBois we are kicking the door in with poems about what we value in spite of stereotypes or other people’s opinions! Since this is the beginning of a new and beautiful residency I thought […]

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